Kathy Fagan

The Beach Where All Babies Are Born | Patricia Lockwood We mailed ourselves the moonstones home.Ten pounds of them, a private beachThat cuts and cuts and cuts the feet.Where all babies are born, but not any of

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text graphic featuring a portion of Marcus Jackson's poem. it reads: Pardon my heart if you have to kick it out. After you’ve muzzled the music and brightened the lights to tidy, my heart will ignore and keep doing its little two-step, aglow in the middle of the room, never happier to have nowhere else to go.

"I can’t imagine feeling less, or caring less. That’s not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1469.

Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson — from PARDON: POEMS — and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/4lbRRqu

Astonishment by Wisława Szymborska "What made me fill myself with me so squarely?"

Astonishment by Wisława Szymborska
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[ ] Dear, I wished you heavens. / If not heavens, earths.

Love this poem by #LadanOsman that was on Poem-a-Day a few days ago.
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honored to talk about poetry with incarcerated communities thx to aaron hand & this amazing podcast project

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From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458

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A master class in rhyme. Elizabeth Bishop poetryfoundation.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Tomatoes The best ones / I ever ate I ate / that summer,

love this poem-a-day selection
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super intrigued by this poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social 💜

luv this issue. thx @ninthletter.bsky.social 💚

lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar

Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!

2 very new poems. Thx, The Account❣️

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check out this poetry podcast, a favorite of mine❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

our so-called christian govt giving more demonic energy every day

Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca The hyacinth wild on my shoulder, My mouth on the dew of your thighs

Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca
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Homecoming One bridge and then another over the fisherman’s net / of steel water and high, secreting grasses.

Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today.
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Thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for running these poems from the forthcoming book & a super insightful interview. Thank you, Karan & Shannan!
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sorry to hear this♥️

Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign:

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a truly good life👏🏽♥️

Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!

Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social
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Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

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